CVE-2024-38207: Microsoft Edge (HTML-based) Memory Corruption Vulnerability

Overview

Severity
Medium (CVSS 6.3)
CVSS Vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:L/E:U/RL:O/RC:C
Category
Edge - Chromium
Exploit Status
Not Exploited
Exploitation Likelihood
Less Likely
Patch Tuesday
2024-Aug
Released
2024-08-22
Last Updated
2024-09-19
EPSS Score
0.27% (percentile: 50.9%)

FAQ

According to the CVSS metrics, successful exploitation of this vulnerability could lead to minor loss of confidentiality (C:L), integrity (I:L) and availability (A:L). What does that mean for this vulnerability? While we cannot rule out the impact to Confidentiality, Integrity, and Availability, the ability to exploit this vulnerability by itself is limited. An attacker would need to combine this with other vulnerabilities to perform an attack. According to the CVSS metric, user interaction is required (UI:R). What interaction would the user have to do? The user would have to click on a specially crafted URL to be compromised by the attacker. What is the version information for this release? Microsoft Edge Channel Microsoft Edge Version Based on Chromium Version Date Released Stable 128.0.2739.42 128.0.6613.84/.85 8/22/2024 According to the CVSS metric, the attack vector is network (AV:N) and user interaction is required (UI:R). What is the target context of the remote code execution? Successful exploitation of this vulnerability requires requires the victim to click a malicious link for an attacker to initiate remote code execution of valid opcodes.

Affected Products (1)

Browser

  • Microsoft Edge (Chromium-based)

Acknowledgments

Nan Wang(@eternalsakura13)

Revision History

  • 2024-08-22: Information published.
  • 2024-09-19: Updated CWE value. This is an informational change only.